Posted on 12/18/2014 6:20:09 AM PST by Kaslin
The attack on a cafe in Sydney, Australia, by a self-described Islamic cleric with a long police record, left two hostages dead, along with the cleric, one Man Haron Monis. He was an Iranian refugee who enjoyed the hospitality and protection of the Australian government.
That incident, which was televised worldwide, was quickly eclipsed by the murder of 145 people at an army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistan. Many of the dead were children. Press reports said Pakistani Taliban fighters burned a teacher alive in front of children and beheaded some of them. A Taliban spokesman said they were exacting revenge for a major operation by Pakistan's Army to clear Taliban strongholds in the North Waziristan tribal area near the Afghan border.
How is the West responding to these and other atrocities? More importantly, how is the Muslim world responding?
In the United States, we have been preoccupied with a one-sided and incomplete report by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee that details some of the enhanced interrogation techniques used in the aftermath of 9-11 to extract information from prisoners confined to Guantanamo prison and other facilities run by the U.S. government. Supporters of those techniques assert they saved lives by thwarting more terrorist attacks; detractors assert the opposite.
In Britain, the Army has issued new guidelines for interrogating suspected terrorists. They include no shouting, no banging of fists on tables and no "insulting words." If Britain had employed those techniques during World War II, Hitler's face might be on the British pound note, instead of the Queen's. When I was in the U.S. Army, drill sergeants frequently yelled at me and they pounded more than tables.
Are we fighting a war, or trying to win "Miss Congeniality"?
Every time we witness these attacks, the apologists here and abroad are quick to issue the familiar excuses. This doesn't represent true Islam, which they say is a religion of peace. These are "lone wolves" (lone rats would be a better designation; wolves at least have some nobility attached to their species). ISIS openly campaigns on the Internet to attract more "lone wolves." In the end, it doesn't matter whether one person or an army of Taliban terrorists kill you. You are still dead.
When the next attack occurs in America -- as it surely will -- will the Obama administration issue the predictable denunciations and apologies for Islam, or will we do what needs to be done to stop the killers? Civil liberties are worth protecting until they are used by our enemies -- along with the constitutional protections we enjoy -- to commit murder. If we are attacked again as on 9-11 and many thousands more of us are killed, what then? Will we eventually go back to business as usual, thus ensuring more attacks?
Why aren't the world's estimated 1.1 billion Muslims forming an army of their own to take out those they claim misrepresent their religion? Why must America face most of the financial and human burden? These killers claim to be acting in the name of Islam, so how about members of the "peaceful religion" doing themselves and the world a favor by taking the lead and neutralizing the threat of Islamic radicalism?
Or would that be an "enhanced technique" that might offend the sensibilities of Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee? Apparently, those senators have forgotten that the one hijacked plane American heroes forced down in Pennsylvania might have been headed for the Capitol Building.
The first rule of war is there are no rules...............
Military trials for non-uniformed, non-state combatants. Execution of the guilty with minimum appeal. Embalm with bacon grease. No virgins.
More death is required. Dead enemies are no longer combatants
Incorrect.
The First Rule of War is to Win.
The Second Rule of War, there are no other rules of war.
Duly noted..............
Many Americans, at this point, would probably elect, if they could, for 93 to have made it to the WH.....and one of the Trade Center Planes to have crashed into a field ......just sayin!
That is at it should be, but then again I have been criticized for being an armchair general with absolutely no military or combat experience.
The only war needed for war is kill more of them then they kill of you. We need to get bck to that!
There seems to be a ‘religion’ that attracts thugs, thieves, rapists, murderers, child molesters, bestiality types and just plain losers..............I wonder which one it is...............
History is written by the winners................
There’s only ONE rule...’Don’t die!’
That cartoon is only true of Sunni Islam. Under the Iranian Shia Twelvers the last panel would just be an empty space representing the world empty of humans ...
These “NAMBY-PAMBY” idiots that keep writing what “RULES” every body should follow when fighting a war. Unfortunately, the “RULES” is only for our side, cause the other side don’t obey the “RULES”. This is like being in a boxing ring, where one side has to obey the rules, but the other side can do anything it wants to do. Guess who will win the boxing match? Once war is declared, the object is to win. If it means turning the other side into glass, so be it. Yep, you use everything you have in your “BAG”. Once peace has been declared again, we can talk about what we did and why we did it.
My wife and I are friends with a couple who were very low key, under the radar missionaries in Peshawar in the early 90s. They said that area at that time made the legendary O.K. Corral look like a little girls’ tea party. I can imagine what it’s become by now.
There is always the hope that someone may accidentally embalm them with normal stuff. Then they get the virgins.
Slightly different approach. Tie them to a stake. Just before shooting, tell them you will give them a calming agent as an injection. Give them an injection of pureed pig intestines. Tell them what you did so they know they will go to hell and get 72 Helens. Shoot them immediately.
thank General Petraeus for COIN and the rules of engagement. They better be changed to prepare our military and police for the fight against the children who hold the heads of their parents victims.
“Rules of War” is a dangerous oxymoron.....
Those commenters that want no rules of war, want to abandon virtue and abandon our culture’s foundational belief in the sacred dignity of every human being.
We do not need a situation of no rules. We may need to update the rules of Just War. We certainly need less hypocrisy from liberals who oppose the legitimate waterboarding of terrorists to save lives, while justifying the painful beheading and live dismemberment of 60,000,000 innocent persons in the womb because they are inconvenient persons standing in the way of our desire for more frequent orgasms.
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